Quote of the Day: “Economic policies need to be analyzed according to the incentives they create, and not according to the hopes that inspired them.” Thomas Sowell
A few interesting articles in TheRecord today. First up is Cheyenne Bholla who has a report on the latest crime statistics from the Region’s Police Board meeting yesterday. It reports some rather startling stats including commercial robberies which were up 86% compared to the last five-year average. Commercial break-ins were up 65% in 2022 compared to the previous five years. Last year, police responded to 1,238 commercial break-ins, Bholla reports. Yet, even with these alarming stats, I predict that TheRecord will continue to report on every obscure activist who wants to reduce the Police budget and bring in some kind of social worker to help with these issues. Nonsense.
On the Insight Page today, we have an op-ed by Dale Beugin who is the Executive Vice President and Rick Smith who is the President of the Canadian Climate Institute. They argue that the provinces aren’t doing enough to completely bankrupt us and devastate our economies in the name of “Climate Change”. Read the op-ed yourself – but at the end, remind yourself that they never put a dollar figure on all of their oh-so-wonderful solutions. Ask yourself why…
Susan Koswan, TheRecord’s resident Chicken Little also has an op-ed on Climate Change. Her column talks about when the Ontario legislature reconvenes next Tuesday 23 February and the (hoped for…) opposition to Bill 23, the More Homes Built Faster Act. She wants this bill to “… never sees the light of day.” And why, you ask??? “The sweeping changes, under the guise of addressing the provincial housing crisis, are undemocratic, and cripple municipal authority and financial ability to plan communities strategically and sustainably.” Oh, so municipal governments like the Region of Waterloo are doing such a great job planning strategically and sustainably in the so-called “housing crisis” that we don’t need this bill, right? Really? Just plain dumb.